#ecosystem-disruption

#ecosystem-disruption

People say you shouldn't be interfering with the river; the outcome if we don't is worse. It has been intervened in so much at this point, you have to keep intervening. Fred Brooks, a river engineer with the local regional council, Environment Canterbury, explains the paradox of managing the Waimakariri River, highlighting how past interventions have created dependency on continued management.

It was previously thought that tropical regions where temperatures fluctuate less over the course of the year would not be so affected by the climate crisis in terms of the timing of flowering. This hypothesis has been proved wrong, said the lead researcher Skylar Graves from the University of Colorado Boulder, who added that nowhere on Earth is unaffected by climate change.